overview
regular
Mon 11-13 Bodywork to Dance
Tue 11-13 Authentic Contact
Wed 11-13 Bodywork to Dance
Wed 14-16 Authentic Contact
Thu 9:30-11:30 Authentic Contact
Fri 20-23 Jam
Sat 19-22 Jam
Sun 19-22 Class into Jam
NEW in Jan 26 ContaKids
Family Jam 18.1.26
Please register: https://liste.motionlab.cologne
CONTACT WORKSHOPS
18.-19.10.25 Nella Turkki
8-9.11.25 Scott Wells
6.12.25 Pawel Konior
26.12-1.1.26 timeshift
24-26.1.26 Tom Goldhand
21.-22.2.26 Hassan Aftabruyan
21.-23.3.26 Simonetta Alessandri
25.-26.4.26 David Bloom
14.5-17.5.26 Defne Erdur
20.-21.6.26 Andrew Waas
19.-20.9.26 Vega Luukkonnen
3-7.10.26 Brenton Cheng
17-21.11.26 Ralf Jaroschinski
1st Sunday Permagroup #1
2nd Monday Moving Constellations
3rd Sunday Permagroup #2
Start Feb 26 CAT Space, Time, Group
Start Aug 25 CAT Principles
28-29.11.26 Susanne Bender
DANCE.MOVE.CREATE
2.11.25 Lea Schmidt
17.1.26 Alexander Hahne
1.-3.5.26 Frederik Wahl
program
Nella Turkki
Flowfully playing in the points of support
18.10-19.10.2025
Very Early Bird Price until 30.8.25
LEA SCHMIDT
Dancing spaces – Improvisation
2.11.25/7.12.25/1.2.26/1.3.26
Workshop series over 4 Sundays
TOM GOLDHAND
On the shoulders of giants – reaching the higher lifts 24.1-26.1.26
Very Early Bird Price until 15.11.25
HASSAN AFTABRUYAN
Breathing bowls in balance – poetic anatomy in motion 21.2-22.2.26
Very Early Bird Price until 31.12.25
SIMONETTA ALESSANDRI
Embodying and navigating opposites – Feldenkrais and CI 21.3-23.3.26
Very Early Bird Price until 15.1.26
WEEKLY CLASSES / Regular Events
Tue 11-13, WED 14-16, Thu 9:30-11:30
Contact Class. Body, techniques, awareness, communication. A contact class for more physical possibilities, to open your senses and to play with the principles of physical communication. Please register! 15 EUR / Unit or 40 EUR / month
MoN 14-16, WED 11-13
Bodywork2Dance uses different types of bodyrelease techniques to relax us. Our body starts to flow. This is the time to start dancing into heaven. Please register! 15 EUR / Unit or 40 EUR / month
WED 15-16 (Starting Jan 14th, 2026)
ContaKids invites toddlers and adults to spend some special time together
and get moving through physical contact. They exercise and dance together, Please register! 15 EUR / Unit or Urbansports
FrI 20-23 , SAT 19-22
Contact jamming with all that is in you in that moment. Neusser Str. 26, Aikidoschule im Hinterhof.
10 EUR cash, PayPal, CreditCard
(not incl. in monthly subscription plans)
Comments to the jam space
SUN 19-22
Class into Jam with focus on CI fundamentals. 90 Minutes Class, 90 Minutes Jam (Only Jam is possible. Please register! 15 EUR / Unit or 40 EUR / month
academy
CAT 2025/26
5-month seminar for research into Contact Improvisation and its effects in groups, trauma situations and personal development
Permagroup #1 every 1st sunday
permagroup #2 every 3rd sunday
Can we co-exist in the same non-verbal space with our diversity? Can we stay connected? A dance with and within our social body.
Fixed group. Please register via E-mail or messenger 30 EUR per month, commitment for 12 month.
EVERY 2nd monday
Can we use Contact Improvisation to watch different patterns and issue that are in our life? This group is dedicated to research CI with the work of constellations. What happens if we bring constellations in movement and constact?
Please register via E-mail or messenger.
Contact improvisation
My focus
Contact Improvisation is not restricted by forms. Our movements are free. In other words: they are driven by our own decisions. I am interested in the non-performing aspect of this art, the non-violent body communication and the creation of an unintentional space to witness all aspects of creation.
Some of my thoughts about the relation between contact improvisation and social structures here for download
Network
facebook.com/groups/130268517131265/
contactquarterly.com
contactfestival.de
contactimpro-koeln.de
contactimpro-aachen.de
contactimpro-essen.de
gabrielekoch.net (Wuppertal)
tanjastriezel.de (Bonn)
What is Contact Improvisation?
Contact Improvisation is an evolving system of movement initiated in 1972 by American choreographer Steve Paxton. The improvised dance form is based on the communication between two moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion—gravity, momentum, inertia. The body, in order to open to these sensations, learns to release excess muscular tension and abandon a certain quality of willfulness to experience the natural flow of movement. Practice includes rolling, falling, being upside down, following a physical point of contact, supporting and giving weight to a partner. Contact improvisations are spontaneous physical dialogues that range from stillness to highly energetic exchanges. Alertness is developed in order to work in an energetic state of physical disorientation, trusting in one’s basic survival instincts. It is a free play with balance, self-correcting the wrong moves and reinforcing the right ones, bringing forth a physical/emotional truth about a shared moment of movement that leaves the participants informed, centered, and enlivened.
Early definition by Steve Paxton and others, 1970s, from CQ Vol. 5:1, Fall 1979